--- title: Adenauer and Krupp cartoon boards, open-air display, Rathausstrasse, East Berlin url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/gdr-adenauer-krupp-cartoon-boards-berlin-1957/ description: Two free-standing white boards carry line cartoons in a paved square. At right, a crowned caricature labelled 'Krupp' sits in an open suitcase of rockets… section: Collection --- [Collection](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/) **Content note:** Caricatures of Konrad Adenauer and of the Krupp arms firm as profiteers of war, with rhymed text about death tolls and atomic rockets. This object is shown as it was published. [Why](https://propagandaarchive.org/about/#as-it-was) [![Adenauer and Krupp cartoon boards, open-air display, Rathausstrasse, East Berlin](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/gdr-adenauer-krupp-cartoon-boards-berlin-1957.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/gdr-adenauer-krupp-cartoon-boards-berlin-1957.jpg) # Adenauer and Krupp cartoon boards, open-air display, Rathausstrasse, East Berlin Two free-standing white boards carry line cartoons in a paved square. At right, a crowned caricature labelled 'Krupp' sits in an open suitcase of rockets and a poison-gas shell, the lid marked '1914-1918 10 Mill. Tote / 1939-1945 42 Mill. Tote', over a six-line rhyme: 'Ich liefere Heldentod engro ... Konrads Lieferant'. At left, a reclining figure reads 'Der Rosenzüchter' under diving bombers, one marked 'US', with a 'Bonn' board and a newspaper clipping. The label and the rhyme do the work; the casualty figures carry no source. ## Text on the object Original (German) · read from the image, not independently checked ``` [right board] KRUPP [on the crown] 1914-1918 10 MILL. TOTE 1939-1945 42 MILL. TOTE [newspaper clipping] Atomgranaten von Krupp [body text illegible] Ich liefere Heldentod engro das machte schon mein Vater so. Einst steckt ich mit die Welt in Brand heut bin ich Konrads Lieferant. Ich mache alles für Moneten Giftgasgranaten und Atomraketen ! [left board] [newspaper clipping] Bonn begrüßt offiziell Aggression [body text illegible] BONN [on the board] DER ROSEN-ZÜCHTER [on the book] Glaubt mir, Araber ! Ich lag nur i[...] und wußte garnicht daß Bomb[...] [rest of both lines hidden by the stand] ``` English translation (machine translation by Claude, not verified by a fluent reader) ``` [right board] KRUPP [on the crown] 1914-1918 10 MILL. DEAD 1939-1945 42 MILL. DEAD [newspaper clipping] Atomic shells from Krupp [body text illegible] I deliver the hero's death wholesale, my father already did it that way. Once I set the world on fire with it, today I am Konrad's supplier. I do everything for dough: poison-gas shells and atom rockets! [left board] [newspaper clipping] Bonn officially welcomes aggression [body text illegible] BONN [on the board] THE ROSE-GROWER [on the book] Believe me, Arabs! I was just lying i[...] and did not know at all that bomb[...] [rest of both lines hidden by the stand] ``` Read from the 1280 px image with enlarged crops of both boards. 'engro' and 'mit die Welt' are as printed. The suitcase figure '42' is read from a small print and may be '40'. The left board's second line and the end of its first line are hidden behind the stand. [← Ngo Dinh Diem of Viet-Nam (Presidency press office booklet, Saigon 1957), 'Highlights of President Ngo Dinh Diem's Government', page 5](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/diem-highlights-henderson-quote-booklet-1957/) ["Faschistische Mörder erneut in Aktion!": street board with eleven numbered portraits, East Berlin →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/gdr-faschistische-moerder-erneut-in-aktion-board-berlin-1957/) ## Using the same techniques - [Behistun (Bisotun) rock relief and trilingual inscription of Darius I: the king, two attendants and the bound rebel leaders beneath the winged figure of Ahuramazda](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/behistun-relief-darius-and-rebels-521bce/) (Achaemenid Empire · 0000 · Card stacking, Name-calling, Testimonial). Content note: Shows bound captives before the king, and the inscription records the mutilation and public execution of rebel leaders, as the king's own account. - [Passional Christi und Antichristi: the emperor kisses the pope's foot (leaf 'Antichristus')](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/passional-christi-antichristi-emperor-kisses-pope-1521/) (Electoral Saxony · 1521 · Name-calling, Card stacking) - [Anacoana fut pendue sans raison (engraving in Le miroir de la cruelle et horrible tyrannie espagnole)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/anacoana-hanged-miroir-tyrannie-espagnole-1620/) (Dutch Republic · 1620 · Fear appeal, Name-calling). Content note: Engraving of a hanged, bare-breasted Taino woman, burning huts and people being killed by Spanish soldiers. - [Ondersoeckt de Geesten, ofse van den Duyvel syn, of niet (the De Witt brothers as devils)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/ondersoeckt-de-geesten-de-witt-devils-1672/) (Dutch Republic · 1672 · Scapegoating, Name-calling) - [The Highlanders Medley, or The Duke Triumphant (A Loyal Song)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/highlanders-medley-duke-triumphant-1746/) (Great Britain · 1746 · Name-calling, Transfer) - [The North Briton, No. XLV, 23 April 1763 (John Wilkes), opening page](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/north-briton-no-45-wilkes-1763/) (Kingdom of Great Britain · Apr 23, 1763 · Name-calling) - [The Bloody Massacre perpetrated in King Street Boston on March 5th 1770 by a party of the 29th Regt.](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/revere-bloody-massacre-king-street-1770/) (Province of Massachusetts Bay · Mar 1770 · Name-calling, Card stacking). Content note: Hand-coloured engraving of bloodied dead and wounded colonists after soldiers fired on a crowd. - [Marche du Dom Quichotte moderne pour la deffence du Moulin des Abus (March of the Modern Don Quixote in Defence of the Mill of Abuses)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/dom-quichotte-moulin-des-abus-1791/) (France · 1791 · Name-calling, Transfer)